Young Adult Author

About a month ago, shortly after the sale of THROUGH TO YOU to HarperCollins, my literary agent-extraordinaire, Mary Kole, told me there was some “Hollywood interest” in the book. Which, um, AMAZED me. I had no idea people in LA would glance twice at you if you had no book sales or weren’t a YouTube video sensation. So I told Mary that was interesting, and we both agreed we wouldn’t get excited.

Fast-forward to last Friday night, March 18th! I found myself on a conference call with Mary, and film-agent-extraordinaire, Michelle Weiner, of CAA. I don’t think I hung up for good that night until sometime after 9:00pm, but when I did, we’d accepted a film option from Paramount and The Montecito Picture Company with a whole bunch of incredible names attached!

And to be clear, a film option does not necessarily mean TTY will be made into a movie. Many, MANY books are optioned all the time and never go any further than that. But for a girl who didn’t even have an AGENT four months ago, let alone a book contract or a FILM option? This is exciting.

SO happy for you. The team set to maybe take your story on sounds amazing-what a score. This would send me into an insomniac tailspin–so much excitement in such a short period, I wouldn’t sleep for weeks! Hope youre able to take it all in and enjoy it to the fullest degree. Well done you:)

Emily, once upon a time it was my job to read books for CAA. (I actually read over 1,000 books and screenplays during that time in my life, for CAA, Artisan, and Summit.) I can tell you that things don’t come together like that unless there is huge excitement over the project, and for it to find a home at Montecito? I mean, I know you already know how extraordinary all of this is, but let me just tell you once again – it’s extraordinary. Congratulations, lady, and enjoy it all to the fullest.